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Article Photos: Round 2 for Sloppy Joe's bar, a Havana original1/5

Jose Rafa Malem, 59, walks into Sloppy Joe's bar, where restoration work of the bar is ongoing, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Rafa's father was a close friend of longtime bartender of Sloppy Joe's, Fabio Delgado and would take Rafa there on Sunday afternoons beginning in the late '50s. To keep Joe's as faithful to the original as possible, project managers examined historic photos and talked to old-timers like Rafa who remember the way it was. Sloppy Joe's will be reopened in February 2013 by the state-owned tourism company Habaguanex, part of an ambitious revitalization project by the Havana City Historian's Office. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) ORG XMIT: XRE103